{"id":9328,"date":"2022-09-20T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2022-10-04T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:42:26","slug":"pamatuj-na-strizlika-o-nove-basni-radka-stepanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/pamatuj-na-strizlika-o-nove-basni-radka-stepanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Wren: about a new poem by Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek"},"content":{"rendered":"
"This is the song of the circle.<\/em>\nRemember it and take it to the people,<\/em>\nLet them learn it and find their place in it,<\/em>\nwhich has been there since the beginning of time, ..."<\/em>\n\u2014 Radek Stepanek<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
An epic composition by poet and environmentalist Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek Remember the wren <\/em>In a sense, it completes his previous efforts in the field of environmental poetry, to the establishment of which he significantly contributed with his work on the Czech literary scene. Radek, originally from the countryside, moved in nature since childhood and fascination with its life and its transformations quite naturally became the basic features of his poetic work. From this point of view, Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek is a true natural lyricist, as evidenced by his first collection of natural miniatures from his native region Court Creek <\/em>(2010), but also a beautiful collection with a Jeffersian touch Pag lace <\/em>(2013), dedicated to the waters of the Adriatic Sea and one of its islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was on the island of Pag that he began to notice the irreversible destruction of nature, which he included in his collection. Here are the men. <\/em>(2018) and in the poetic triptych Erosion <\/em>(2018), Thaw<\/em> (2019) and Whirlwind <\/em>(2021) led to a deeper reflection on global ecological problems. In these appealing and often painful reflections on the ecological crisis, he comes to terms with the transformation of the world by man, with the merciless disappearance of its forms and species, and asks what man is and what his place is in this dizzyingly changing world. Is it possible to preserve the natural cyclical course of nature and unite the human with the natural? Even though he comes to terms with the possibility that humanity may completely disappear from the face of the Earth in the process of evolution, he still does not stop believing in it. He believes in hope, he believes in love, and also in the possibility of poetry to protect what we love, and it seems also in its power to contribute to the desired transformation of our human story, which could lead us to a renewed sense of belonging to a more than human world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The seeds of a new story that Radek would later portray in his poem Remember the wren <\/em>(2022), emerge in the final love poems of the collection Great intercourse <\/em>(2020), which he dedicated to his wife Tereza B\u00ednov\u00e1. Love, poetry and nature seem to merge in them, and \u201cI\u201d and \u201cyou\u201d grow into a universal \u201cwe\u201d. The author addresses his wife as an ark, as a place of salvation and birth: \u201cYou are a home for animals and plants, the life that will fill the empty earth grows from you from its beginning.\u201d Here, the \u201cembrace\u201d goes beyond the dimension of a personal love relationship and shapes what is in the poem Remember the wren<\/em> the poet calls "big circle"<\/em>: love as a great embrace of all living things, arising from the awareness that we are part of a larger body of interconnected life that we must care for together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Epic poem Remember the wren<\/em> is a mythical initiation into this new story. An archetypal woman and man embark together on a journey of transformation that takes them far from people, far beyond the growing cities. They are gradually addressed by individual elements or their embodied representatives \u2013 earth (tortoise), fire (thunder), water and wind (wren) \u2013 and initiated into the awareness of the vitality and interconnectedness of all existence. The essential world of nature or the source of life itself sings to woman and man song<\/em>of the circle<\/em> \u2013 which is the song of the heart itself \u2013 to remember their original unity with it. But first they must open themselves to deep listening and address the non-human world, to ask it. They are urgently told: ".<\/em>.. your voice is powerful \/ and even those who cannot hear you can hear it.\/ \u2026 Even those who cannot see you can see you. \/ They can be your allies, \/ if you ask them to. \/\u2026 But you will remain alone and without help, \/ if you want to stay<\/em>"albeit alone and without help."<\/em> For us modern people, it is a challenge to cross the Rubicon, a challenge to open ourselves to a reciprocal relationship with the world, "which makes us companions in the world, participating in conversation with intelligence in a universe full of beings."<\/em> (Charles Eisenstein).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The voice of an epic song\u00a0Remember the wren\u00a0<\/em>is truly prophetic and reminiscent of the diction of ancient founding myths; it calls us to transform our relationship to the world and our declining civilization. With this poem, Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek ranks among the impressive narrators of the "new story", which is today carried by such thinkers as Thomas Berry, Charles Eisenstein and David Abram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
George Zemanek<\/p>\n\n\n
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Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek (reprophoto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Radek Stepanek, Remember the wren.<\/em> Published by the PILGRIM association \u2013 The Wandering University of Nature in 2022. Graphic design: Tom\u00e1\u0161 Gardelka; illustrations: Tereza B\u00ednov\u00e1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThis is the song of the circle. Remember it and take it to the people, so that they may learn it and find their place in it, which has been there since the beginning of time, \u2026\u201d \u2014 Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek The epic composition by poet and environmentalist Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek, Pamatuj na w\u0159ezl\u00edka, in a sense, completes his previous efforts in the field of environmental poetry, the establishment of which\u2026 Continue reading Remember the Wren: about a new poem by Radek \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,38],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nezarazene","tag-knihy-pilgrimu","tag-poezie","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potulnauniverzita.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}